Tinykin Preview: Pikmin By Way of Mario Odyssey
Pikmin has never been a bestseller compared to Nintendo franchises like Super Mario. Yet, the idea of having a personal real-time strategy game with players throwing cute beings around an oversized environment has struck a chord, leading to Pikmin appearing around the Super Nintendo World theme park and receiving a Niantic mobile game. Developer Splashteam's Tinykin asks the question: what it would look like if Pikmin's Olimar were the protagonist of a 3D sandbox platformer?
Tinykin was revealed during the PC Gaming Show at E3 2021, including an animation by Andrea Asperges and Federico Bressan that invites players into the perspective of Milo: a future interstellar explorer who re-discovers Earth, devoid of human life and trapped in the 1990s. He beams down into a suburban home, finds himself only an inch tall, and seeks answers to the strange happenings as his means of teleporting out is broken.
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A press demo sent out by Splashteam and publisher tinyBuild covers an early portion of the adventure that ensues. It includes a hallway tutorial area that connects to the game's main hub in the cellar, now the Chrysal Workshop; and its first level in the living room, converted into the City of Sanctar by one of many sentient species of insects called the Shieldbugs.
Ultimately Tinykin is a lot like the 3D platformer/collectathons that flooded the market in the 1990s and early 2000s, predicated on a conceit that Milo must visit open-ended areas and collect parts of a machine that will allow him to travel outside. To do so he'll have to appease bugs that hold claims in each territory, not unlike quests in classic titles like Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro the
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